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Twitter for fun or the elite?
There's been a lot of opinions, articles, blog, MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and any other media on Ashton Kutcher’s [@aplusk] Twitter challenge to CNN. What started off as a bit of fun & frivolity soon became a bone of contention for many so-called “serious” Twitterites.
So what happened that made having fun on social networks and microblogs such a crime?
I sat back and had a laugh every time I saw something about it. It’s not like Ashton wasn’t a serious twitter’er before hand. The man incessantly tweets about all kinds of things, just like many other people we know. That he has become so popular really is a testimony to the value of his entity and interaction. In my opinion he has added value to the Twitter universe. He’s added family [@mrskutcher], added photos, added videos, taken the Twitterverse to the Academy Awards after party, has introduced us to all manner of celebrities and humanized them.
Is your site IE8 compatible?
Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8 and with it increased the number of browsers that a site has to be compatible with. While IE8 claims to better support standards it also does not render all sites the same as IE7 did.
Microsoft attempted to solve this incompatibility by providing an IE7 compatibility mode which can be enabled by end users by clicking the "Compatibility View" button at the right end of the address bar. However if your site fails to display correctly in IE8 then it will show broken until the user clicks this button.
Your visitors are important, you wouldn't have a web site it they weren't, therefore you want to provide them with the best possible experience when visiting your site therefore you should check your site in IE8 looking for any errors.
Websites have to be Worked
More & more small business websites are making their way onto the world wide web. No longer do small businesses need reminding the importance of a web presence. They get it.
But what then?
Too many small businesses are regarding their website as a business card or brochure. But just take a moment. How many business cards, brochures & stamps can you buy for the price of a website? Then it stands to reason that a website should be taken a little more seriously. Just leaving it there is like having one VERY expensive business card. Yet it can be so much more!
Simply put…. Websites need to be worked! Here’s 5 reasons why.
Is your website infected with a parasite?
With hackers exploiting security vulnerabilities in popular scripts there are vast numbers of sites infected with parasites and their owners are unaware.
http://www.unmaskparasites.com/ provides an easy way to scan your web pages for suspicious content.
Slide show in MODx
The following MODx snippet allows you to create image slide shows where the current image fades into the next image in the sequence. The snippet allows for multiple slide shows per page with the possibility of displaying text for each image and having each taking the visitor to a different URL when clicked.
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Items of Interest
- Use the Recession to Your Advantage If you are a business you can’t afford to waste time or resources dwelling. Now is the time you have to be proactive.
- Are you being talked about? I know, I know …. another blog about social networking! Yes folks, it is. There seems to be a trend here doesn’t there?